A customer service...
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| Author | Content |
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| jimf Oct 05, 2006 11:09 AM EDT |
Oh my! Once again MS will freely supply their expertise and services to assure that you bend over at the correct time. How generous of them... |
| djohnston Oct 05, 2006 11:25 AM EDT |
Even better, "Microsoft cited customer feedback for the change of heart." Customers said yes, please, look over our shoulders at every opportunity and invade our data centers with your software probes! |
| dcparris Oct 05, 2006 3:29 PM EDT |
I recently heard some mumbling about MS' licensing where I work. I'll have to ask if they were among the customers asking for the "change of heart". > From the article: "For Microsoft, it's another step towards the bigger goal of stamping out Windows software piracy..." I agree that we should put an end to software raiding ships on the high seas. Indeed, I can now formulate a presidential platform - The War on Software Piracy! Yeah, that's the ticket. I can get the CIA to execute copies of software *before* they raid the helpless ships. Oh yeah. White House, here I come! |
| hkwint Oct 05, 2006 3:44 PM EDT |
Phew, when I read the service I was afraid SMS was Short Message Service for mobile phones. I'm glad it ain't, since sending MS license's to mobile phones would clog up the whole ether. |
| dcparris Oct 05, 2006 5:00 PM EDT |
You know, I was worried about that SMS, too. We need more acronyms. :-p |
| jimf Oct 05, 2006 5:07 PM EDT |
> We need more acronyms. :-p Ohh... don't get me started ;-) The 'war on acronyms', now that's something we could all get behind... |
| jdixon Oct 05, 2006 6:07 PM EDT |
> he 'war on acronyms', now that's something we could all get behind... That would be the WOA, correct? :) |
| jimf Oct 05, 2006 6:30 PM EDT |
> That would be the WOA, correct? :) Ouch!... |
| Sander_Marechal Oct 05, 2006 10:13 PM EDT |
Someone once said that the biggest danger the IT community faces over the next decade is that there are only about 17.000 TLA (Three Letter Acronyms). Back to WGA: I trust you all read about Windows SPP which will kick Vista back to "reduced functionality mode" when WGA says Vista is pirated? In reduced functionality mode, the onlything that will work is IE7 (no desktop, no start button, no applications, nothing) through which you can buy a new license. You can browse other sites too. After one hour, the PC will reboot. I'm wondering how long it will take someone to write a virus that triggers reduced functionality mode (and optionally starts asking for a ransom fee). I wonder how many people will jump to Linux after having been targeted by the virus. Given the recent story of how an MS screwup on the WGA server caused many people to have their WGA triggered, I wonder if MS will ever screw up so badly that all the world's Vista machines jump to reduced functionality mode. Or if a hacker could penetrate MS and do the same. |
| jimf Oct 05, 2006 10:21 PM EDT |
> I'm wondering how long it will take someone to write a virus that triggers reduced functionality mode We need to start working on that one right away sander :D |
| ABCC Oct 05, 2006 11:34 PM EDT |
> I'm wondering how long it will take someone to write a virus that triggers reduced functionality mode We need to start working on that one right away sander :D I've heard some people in Redmond are working on a patch that does just that. It'll be out the first tuesday in March 2007. |
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